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Afghan peace lost in transition worries
KABUL — Amid the scattered but steadily mounting carnage of the Taliban’s annual spring offensive, including a suicide bombing Monday that killed a ...
Senate panel backs arming Syria rebels
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to send weapons to rebels fighting Syria's government, but ...
Getting to Yes with the Taliban
Most statesmen confronted by the modern scourge of terrorism have intoned the mantra, "We don't negotiate with terrorists"; ...
Afghanistan: Deadly 24 hours leave 14 police dead
KABUL, Afghanistan — A coordinated Taliban assault on checkpoints in southern Afghanistan killed four police before a counterattack drove the ...
Car bomb, other attacks kill 20 in Iraq
BAGHDAD — A car bomb exploded as Sunni worshippers were leaving a mosque after evening prayers Tuesday in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of ...
Afghan interpreter’s family killed by Taliban near Kandahar
When Sayed Shah Sharifi’s family heard that distant relatives had been killed in a roadside bomb attack, they decided to pay their condolences to the ...
Applying Early Lessons to Build Afghan Security
As Brig. Gen. Don Bolduc, deputy commander of the Special Operations forces in Afghanistan, prepares to leave the country, a program created to train ...
A Group Taking Politics and Military Strategy to the Same Extremes
A suicide bombing in Kabul was almost as noteworthy for the group that took credit — Hezb-i-Islami, a largely spent insurgent force — as for its ...
Tunisia teeters as it grapples with jihadists
TUNIS, Tunisia, May 21 (UPI) -- Tunisia is getting tough with hard-line Islamists as it finds itself struggling with the fallout of its ...